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Jakes was totally on board with the Faith-based intiative programs, putting $$$$ in his pocket. I don't think his motives are pure. Anyone can put on a backwards collar and say that he/she is a servant of God.

I just don’t like the man. At all.

Official Inauguration Poster Released By Obama Team: Exclusive

The Barack Obama Inaugural Committee is releasing an official inauguration poster playing off past themes and marking the history of January 20th in a uniquely Obama fashion.

Designed by famed street artist Shepard Fairey, the print, created especially for the 2009 Inauguration, boldly declares “BE THE CHANGE.”

t is the next step in the branding of the presidency — a development that is not unique to Obama but one that he has used better than any other politician in recent memory.

Fairey's initial design — a guerrilla style, dark-colored portrait of the then-candidate — proved to be a political and cultural phenomenon during the campaign. The current edition plays heavily off those themes and it seems likely to be a major symbol during the inauguration festivities. The image will be available on buttons, lapel pins, stickers and t-shirts.

The poster will officially be released tomorrow on the Inaugural Committee's online store.

Mr. President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama! Large and IN CHARGE!

Obama Vows To Continue Fight To Keep Blackberry

Amid all the action leading up to Obama's inauguration it is easy to forget that there is still an issue very close to the President-Elect's heart that has yet to be resolved: that of the fate of his BlackBerry.

Speaking with CNBC Wednesday, Obama explained that he is still fighting to hold onto the device despite the sea of lawyers who have warned him against keeping it.

I'm still clinging to my BlackBerry. They're going to pry it out of my hands.[...]

I don't know that I'll win, but I'm still–I'm still fighting it. And–but here's the point I was making, I guess, is that it's not just the flow of information. I mean, I can get somebody to print out clips for me, and I can read newspapers. What it has to do with is having mechanisms where you are interacting with people who are outside of the White House in a meaningful way. And I've got to look for every opportunity to do that–ways that aren't scripted, ways that aren't controlled, ways where, you know, people aren't just complimenting you or standing up when you enter into a room, ways of staying grounded.

Isn't this just adorable? :>) :>) BUT. he is SERIOUS!! :>) :>)

Once was Pennsylvania. Once was Ohio.

Each time, his face cracked and he had to amend his comments.

McCain Repeats Palin's Attack On Fruit Fly Research

[NOTE: Soooo, you wonder where her angst against "FRUIT FLIES" came from?]

John McCain reached back into the presidential campaign on Wednesday to pull out a scientific critique that had first been made by his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, when she ridiculed funding for fruit fly research. In a late-October speech, Palin noted that the research was going on in “Paris, France” and added “I kid you not.”

On Wednesday, McCain himself grabbed for the fruit-fly swatter at a press conference to unveil his new anti-earmark legislation.

After a long takedown of research into lobsters by the University of Maine that involves a “Lobster Cam,” McCain, a Senator from Arizona, turned on the fruit flies, saying, “also, there's one in Paris that — yes — $212,000 for Olive Fruit Fly research in Paris, France.”

During the campaign, Palin's criticism of fruit-fly research was heavily attacked by the scientific community, which argued that fruit flies, because of their brief life-spans, make up a cornerstone of scientific and medical research. In 1933, Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for his work with fruit flies, which showed how genes are passed on through chromosomes. [She didn't learn this in any of those 5 colleges!]

Palin was considered at the time to have been scientifically freelancing, but McCain's comments today indicate that the objection to fruit-fly research came from the top.

The specific earmark in question was requested by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.). The money was for a lab set up by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Europe to study emerging threats from insects. “The Olive Fruit Fly has infested thousands of California olive groves and is the single largest threat to the U.S. olive and olive oil industries,” said Thompson. “The research facility is located in France because Mediterranean countries like France have dealt with the Olive Fruit Fly for decades, while California has only been exposed since the 1990s.”

He, apparently, didn't understand the significance of this branch of scientific research, EITHER!

***shakin' my head*** WHEW!! :>)

I appreciate the Kors gown. And I don’t like Kors. That blue is stunning and it makes her appear so regal.

I’m not a fan of gowns that can look like pants when a woman is walking.

…and now, the Academy Award for Best Political Gangsta of 2008-2009 goes to…***drumroll***
Rod___ Blagojevich!

…and I bet his ass beatz all the charges that Fitzgerald throws at him.

Confession: I like Blago. I wish that Blago could trade places with Harry Reid. I’d much rather have a fighter than a limp noodle leading Democrats in the Senate.